First time charter – charter Bees – would love your input!

This is my first chart – second cycle off Mirena. We are NTNP – as in, we are not actively TTC quite yet but we’re not avoiding by any means.

I’d appreciate any thoughts about my chart so far from charting Bees. This TWW is giving me anxiety even though like I said, we weren’t even actually trying (timing just worked out this month). If not BFP this month, we will be TTC next month.

I’m not sure what to say other than that it does look like you ovulated. It would be a lot easier to interpret your O date more clearly if you had some CM data – are you tracking that at all? I know that really helped me to tell when I was about to O (and confirm it after, especially if my temps were questionable for some reason). Otherwise, you’re on the right track, just a few more days until you can start testing 🙂

I’m such a light sleeper – I hope I can get accurate temps. I’m always waking up in the morning to like roll over or tell the cat to get out of my closet and falling back to sleep. I wonder if I’ll be able to get good numbers.

SadieBee: Thanks. I’ve been kind of “aware” of my CM but not actively charting it yet – like I said, we’re actually going to TTC starting next month (unless we get a BFP this month of course!) so this month was more about getting into the routine of temping and getting the hang of charting. I was kind of curious as to why my temps went up at O date (I can tell you I’m confident I O’d on that date due to the CM situation even though it’s not on my chart) and then again went even higher afterward.

koi424: It’s not complicated – at least the way I’m doing it right now. I guess it could get complicated if you were tracking all sorts of other things. If you are just going to track temps, it really becomes habit and takes hardly any effort. I can tell you that I wake up sometimes because of our cats, and my huband usually gives me a kiss goodbye about 1/2 hour before I wake up (I’m usually pretty much asleep when he does this and vaguely aware) and my temps I think look to be at least accurate enough to detect a pattern (which is the point).

MsYankee: Yours looks like a pretty normal pattern – it’s not unusual for temps to slowly go up for a day or two before they really spike. I would say it’s too early for it to be an implantation spike, if that’s what you’re wondering about.

MsYankee: Your temp will always rise after O & will possibly continue to rise for a few days after staying up pretty high until you get your period. Here is my chart last cycle. As you can see, after I O’d, my temp went up and down depending on the day, but stayed relatively high until AF arrived.